Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SHAPE or THINGS TO COME-H. G. Wells-Macmillan...
Herbert George Wells has always been fascinated by shapes-especially by the shapes of such amorphous figures as Science, History, Tendencies, Cultures. Often in quasi-serious fantastic tales, in mostly serious pamphlets of prophecy, he has tried to describe what particularly tantalizes him: the Future's shape. His listeners are less attentive than they were...
...Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags in his forepaws. Between the time that she makes her arrangements and the time her guests assemble in the drawing room, the picture has revealed their private lives, rearranged their relations with each other. Carlotta Vance has sold her stock in Oliver Jordan's shaky shipping...
Meantime Midwestern was growing older and bigger; Ella, now Miss Bishop and a campus landmark, grew with it. Love came once more, in the shape of a middle-aged professor, but he had a wife. Miss Bishop's mother went crazy, rocked back & forth in her room for nine years. The professor's unwanted wife died; on his way to Miss Bishop he was killed in an accident. Miss Bishop's salary was cut; her savings went down the drain when her bank failed. But when cheering alumni gave her a testimonial dinner all Miss Bishop...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...